At the border with the Alsace.. Lucerne, Switzerland

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Departing from Rome by car at a time of a cottage in Alsace, we finished 3300 with total well-km and 5 take a look at neighbors with each other and share many cultural traits. The first stop was Lucerne, a pleasant surprise that has allowed us to stretch my legs my legs before Nothalten per share, the village located along the Alsatian Wine Road, where we stayed for a week. As you enter France, the difference in the landscape with respect to Switzerland was immediately apparent because all along the road was not taken care of, but upon reaching the "true Alsace, or in the hills that surround the Vosges, we seemed to enter a book of fairy tales.
The villages are well kept and full of flowers, the vineyards are ordered .... and endless forests of the Vosges, beautiful and different from ours.
The cottage, found on the internet in extremis, was carinissimo, clean and equipped with every possible appliance!
Thus began our pilgrimage to this particular region of France and neighboring countries. L 'list of places visited is long, what can be said is that the area also offers much for children. There are parks for restocking of animals among which stands out that of the stork, the symbol of 'Alsace. Castles, beautiful villages, the possibility to rent bicycles and walking in the mountains. One day must be absolutely dedicated to Europapark, in Rust, Germany, an unknown park in Italy, but that has nothing to envy to the amusement park best known. We made trips to Colmar, Freiburg, Strasbourg and Basel, until Saturday August 5, when we finally left France to start slowly the journey back home. The first stop l 'We made it to the waterfall on the Rhine at Schaffhausen, Switzerland .... grandiose, one gets an idea of the meaning of the word clang! We continued to the Bodensee, where we visited Constance (Germany) and then we stayed in Lindau (Germany yet) built on a peninsula to the south, definitely very charming and also very vital.
The next day, the weather was bad, so we decided to go home, we have concluded through Liechtenstein, deludentissimo and where it was even forbidden to stand in front of the castle of the princes, but where we have also done a photo from good Italian transgressors of the rules . We lunched in Lugano, another disappointment due to a cementing the lake too long ago that does not honor the legendary Switzerland.
And then down towards the house, we have reached around 20 and he has received with the usual summer sun.